Re: can I change Word's choice of font for certain unicode characters?

From: David (anonymous_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 10/17/04 

Date: Sun, 17 Oct 2004 11:30:12 -0700

Thank you for your reply. Is there anything one can do at the system level
(e.g. through Terminal) to change the system's behavior so that it gives me
the font I want rather than the font *it* thinks I want?

>-----Original Message-----
>David <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
>
>> If I'm typing in Times New Roman and I want to enter an IPA (phonetic)
>> unicode character that's missing from Times New Roman, Word goes
ahead
>> and switches the font to Lucida Grande, which has those characters.
>>
>> The problem is, I don't want Lucida Grande! I want a different font that's
on
>> my system and also has the IPA characters in it (Doulos SIL). I can let
Word
>> do what it wants, and then manually change the font, but this is a big
>> nuisance. Is there any way I can get Word to do what I want it to do --
>> change to my choice of font, not its own?
>
>I believe that this is happening at system level - TextEdit would do
>exactly the same thing. Strategies for entering special characters, and
>how Unicode works on Mac OS X, are discussed in some detail in my
>recently publish Take Control ebook. An autotext (or a macro) could be
>useful here. m.
>
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